Points de namioka espaces normants applications à la théorie isométrique de la dualité

We study in this work various aspects of the isometric theory of duality. We show that in wide classes of Banach spaces, dual spaces are characterized by the existence of a retraction fromE″ ontoE. The predual of such spaces is then unique. We study the imbedding of regularly normed spaces into dual spaces. We better the known results on loss of regularity of the norm of dual spaces. We characterize the dual norms on an Asplund space in terms of “bad differentiability”.